Welcome to LT.

Could you share pictures of the forged Icon wheels? Nice build.

 

"It started life as a fairly clean 1zz powered/5 speed car. It now has a built 2zz and 6 speed."

Really? So in the UK they did not have 2ZZ from the factory? Did the UK have multiple engine options in 2007?

Very nice and welcome to LT!

 

He's AU!

 

Here is some

 

Some pictures of the custom made headers

absolute works of art

 

Some pictures of the custom made headers

absolute works of art

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Amazing!

 

Wow, those headers are gorgeous!

 

I have built a couple sets of headers, and I have to agree, those are beautiful! How did you approach picking the lengths of the secondaries?

 

lots of dyno time with slip jointed secondaries out of the back of the car.
This length did hurt top end a little but gave the most midrange

we are about to change the final collector to a slightly larger one which in testing picked up some top end with minimal loss to torque

 

Beautifully done! Looks like the welder used an orbital welder to assemble the segments.

 

he Used a rotisserie to spin it around, all purged also

 

They look better than these in the below picture but I am sure Mr Axiom likes his too. 🤣

 

here is a lap from mount panorama bathurst from the lotus only day earlier this year

 

Love seeing laps from that track!

Could you share a link to the wheels you have? I couldn’t find them online.

They look a lot like the Elise Cup R forged.

 

IFT01 – Icon Forged

www.iconforgedwheels.com.au

these ones, they can do custom offsets which is what appealed to me

 

 

 

a few pics of the engine build

i went through it from top to bottom with most parts replaced


had a heap of parts vapor blasted also which came up very well.

Also cut open and ported the inlet manifold and fitted an adaptor to run a 70mm toyota kluger 2gr throttle body

pistons and rods, very sexy and very good weight saving

also fitted a ichihara johnson crank scraper and baffle and checked the pick up height to the bottom of the sump, ended up adding a 3mm spacer tp space it down

finished project, I also had all bolts re coated

 

Nice job. Looks great.

 

A couple of pics from the track on the weekend
I’m quite happy with how the car is handling now

next outing will be on much better rubber though

 

I have Bathurst coming up in a few weeks

I was lucky to be able to borrow a set of 15/16 ethos (I am looking for a set if anyone has some for sale??)

i have fitted them with yokohama advan a050 which will be a good improvement over the previous khumos

 

Very clean build looks very nice with this oem look.
I see from you first page that you have 2pot caliper front and back. They have the same piston diameter? What compound you are running front and back?

 

thanks

for the last 2.5 years i have been running 44mm front and rear with carbone lorraine rc6 pads front and rear.
just recently i fitted 41mm to the rear and retained the 44mm fronts, still with the same pads

it is only a very small difference in balance on the track imo

 

Reading some of these comments. I was wondering why on the Elise and the Exige you have to run smaller wheels in the front than the rear?

 

Help with the 5deg rake that the geometry runs best at. Some will run a square setup as well.

 

Dear god that header. Lovely build!

 

back to bathurst again and managed a new PB

this event is run every year and is fantastic, its only available to run on a handful of times a year, the rest of the time its a public road

 

I have been chasing a brake issue for some time now, I had a very inconsistent brake pedal and very random abs behavior

Every time i entered a braking zone and hit the brakes the pedal would react a different way, from rock hard to spongey too wooden.



I decided to replace the brake master cylinder with a big bore SSC unit and replaced the abs modulator with a used unit, after being bled up by lotus and cycled correctly i have brakes back again.



tested yesterday at Winton with much success, its so nice to have a good pedal again after 6 months of working around it.

 

I have been chasing a brake issue for some time now, I had a very inconsistent brake pedal and very random abs behavior

Every time i entered a braking zone and hit the brakes the pedal would react a different way, from rock hard to spongey too wooden.



I decided to replace the brake master cylinder with a big bore SSC unit and replaced the abs modulator with a used unit, after being bled up by lotus and cycled correctly i have brakes back again.



tested yesterday at Winton with much success, its so nice to have a good pedal again after 6 months of working around it.

Glad to hear the good news!

What’s the advantage of a big bore master brake cylinder?

 

A050 205/215 tyres back on = new PB

 

Wow. These are nice !

 

another day, new track

 

Its been a long time since i have had the car out, new track in south Australia called the bend.
i drove two layouts, the longer one being the second longest permanent circuit in the world

car is going well but very loose at high speed.

GT layout - long

international layout